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Date: 21 Feb 2007 21:11:42
From: Bellsouth Ijit 2.0
Subject: converting a burley d'lite to haul dog
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I bought a used Burley D'Lite in the hope of somehow rigging it to haul my
75lb malamute around. The D'lite is designed to carry two children and is
the biggest one in the Burley lineup. However, the "floor" of the trailer
is a canvas stretched out over the aluminum frame, as are most child bike
trailers, and although it's designed to carry 100lbs, I don't think I can
just put my dog on the canvas floor and have it withstand the weight. I
thought of putting a wooden baseboard of sort, but am afraid that the edges
of the wood would rub against the canvas and eventually rip it. In
retrospect I probably should have bought just a cargo trailer and rig up
some kind of housing on top it, but that would have meant more messing
around. Now that I have a D'lite, I have to somehow make this work. If
anybody has experience rigging a trailer made for human children to carry a
dog, I would love to hear any feedback. Thanks.
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Date: 22 Feb 2007 18:22:00
From: Darin McGrew
Subject: Re: converting a burley d'lite to haul dog
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Bellsouth Ijit 2.0 <bjit@bellsouth.net > wrote:
> I bought a used Burley D'Lite in the hope of somehow rigging it to haul my
> 75lb malamute around.[...] If anybody has experience rigging a trailer
> made for human children to carry a dog, I would love to hear any feedback.
We have a Wike dog trailer: http://www.wicycle.com/ldt.htm
It's basically a kid trailer with a few mods:
- they removed the seats and added a short leash
- they attached a rigid plastic floor to the metal frame
- they added a foam pad (about 2" thick) over the rigid floor
- they shifted the wheel mount points forward to adjust its balance
This might give you some ideas.
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Darin McGrew, mcgrew@stanfordalumni.org, http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/
Web Design Group, darin@htmlhelp.com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/
"Not all those that wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkein
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Date: 22 Feb 2007 02:50:51
From: Ryan Cousineau
Subject: Re: converting a burley d'lite to haul dog
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In article <45dcfbf8$0$8953$4c368faf@roadrunner.com >,
"Bellsouth Ijit 2.0" <bjit@bellsouth.net > wrote:
> I bought a used Burley D'Lite in the hope of somehow rigging it to haul my
> 75lb malamute around. The D'lite is designed to carry two children and is
> the biggest one in the Burley lineup. However, the "floor" of the trailer
> is a canvas stretched out over the aluminum frame, as are most child bike
> trailers, and although it's designed to carry 100lbs, I don't think I can
> just put my dog on the canvas floor and have it withstand the weight. I
> thought of putting a wooden baseboard of sort, but am afraid that the edges
> of the wood would rub against the canvas and eventually rip it. In
> retrospect I probably should have bought just a cargo trailer and rig up
> some kind of housing on top it, but that would have meant more messing
> around. Now that I have a D'lite, I have to somehow make this work. If
> anybody has experience rigging a trailer made for human children to carry a
> dog, I would love to hear any feedback. Thanks.
Without being familiar with the trailer, I'd guess that your best bet is
a piece of fairly high-density foam rubber glued to the bottom side of a
wooden baseboard. That will maximize load distribution and minimize
pressure points on the canvas.
--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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